CIP4 Announces 2010 CIPPI Award Winners for JDF Implementation
Times Printers Pte Ltd., Singapore
Web offset printing company
• Established in 1968
• 350 employees
• Prints news, magazines and textbooks
• 7 Goss web presses, Komori, manroland, Mitsubishi and Heidelberg sheetfeed presses and Muller Martini postpress equipment
Objectives of Implementation
• Decrease non-productive time throughout all areas of the business, so production capacity is optimized, achieving higher throughput with the same amount of manpower and machinery
• Integrate sales forecasting, production control and inventory control so that real time, enterprise-wide resource planning can be carried out effectively. Automate the forecasting and planning of material and production capacity to optimally fulfill the demands of the sales orders
• Closing of financial accounts at a date closer to the end of the month, as a result of faster and timely costing
• Higher efficiency in scheduling and capacity planning
• More accurate forecasting from the Sales Department
• Ad hoc sales campaigns to sell free capacity
• Reduction in inventory and subsequent write-offs in stock depreciation